SULLIVAN JSLFE REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIV-
Ckin» has to-day twenty-six ports
open to foreign commerce.
Taking the whole land surface of the
globe into consideration, there are
twenty-two and a half acres for each
inhabitant on this planet.
~ silverware belonging to Queen
"s table would keep her from
for the rest'of her life, if the
o the worst. It is valued
0.
railroads have decided
' tracks, and will go
ley are tired of paying
v kill," explains the
ne.
wiped out, it
■'ssia of an \
'hich Tur
idemnity,
.. i.
Clares that he has
ice that tho re- i
, still rest in the
„o Domingo, Havti.
je remains transferred
'95 were those of tho
er's son, Diego.
Louisville Courier-Journal
(hat the question of keeping
down the cotton acreage for 1896 is
attracting a great deal of attention in
the South. The cotton exchanges are
urging planters to diversify their
crops anil plant no more than they
did in 1895.
The Statemen's Yearbook for 18S5,
an acknowledged authority on statis
tics, gives the area of British Guiana
as 76,000 square miles, while in the
issue of 1895 the sagjo country is
credited with an area of 109,000. No
treaty is cite.l to account for this in
crease of 33,000 square miles. This
seems to the Pathfinder a matter for
scientific investigation. Of the in
crease of species thero is definite
knowledge, but the mattar of terri
torial multiplication is anomalous, in
fact without explanation, unless it be
due to alliuvial deposits along the
coast.
The New York Herald says that
"the cable despatch of congratulation
addressed by the Emperor William to
President Krueger, of tho Transvaal
Republic, which is worded in the ous
tomary phraseology of messages from
one Chief of State to another, is an
historic document of far greater im
portance than it appears at the first
glanc? It is the recognition of the
absolute independence of the Trans
vaal Republic and a repudiation of the
rights of suzerainty which England
cltims to exercise over the South
African Republic by virtue of the con
vention of 1884, which provides that
the South African Republic shall con
clude no treaty or engagement with
any State or Nation other than the
Orange Free State, nor with any na
tive tribe to the eastword or westward
of the Republic, unless the same has
been approved by Her Majesty the
Queen. This passage is the sole foun
dation for England's claim to suzer
ain rights over the Boers, which is
now denied in the German Emperor's
message, issued after calm delibera
tion in council with his Imperial
Chancelor and with his Ministers of
Foreign Affairs and of tho Navy."
The Atlanta Journal says that
"Georgia is to have another immense
colony of Northern and Western set
tlers, if the plans of four gentlemen
who are now in this State materialize.
The names of the members of the party
are: Messrs. W. W. Taggart, of Breck
inridge, Minn., who was in the last
Legislature; C. H. Fairall, of West
Branch, lowa, and a brother of
Judge Fairall, of that State; John J.
Gamble, of West Bramb, lowa, an 1
A. E. Sansburn, of Breckinridge,
Minn. These gentlemen, who are all
well known in their localities as busi
ness and professional men of high
rank, have been in nearly all of the
States of the South prospecting for
suitable lands on which to establish
the colony whioh they have in mind.
They have about concluded to negoti
ate for a tract of 80,000 aores in the
southern part of this State, having
been more impressad with Georgia
than with any other State in this seo
tion. It is their purpose to secure
this land and divide it into lots of
farms, which will be sold or rented, at
the ohoice of the settler. The move
ment which started some time ago and
eulminatod in the great Fitzgerald
colony in Irwin County, has caused a
- '.urrent of interest in the South
rakened throughout the North
d in Minnesota especially there
a strong desire on the part of people
to come to this section. The winters
are so severe in the Northwest that
the people are growing tired of the
country."
THE •• OUT-OF-DATE" COUPLE.
■ We are "so out of date," they say,
I Ned and I;
Wo love In an old-fashioned way,
Long since go a by.
He says I am his helpmate true
In everything;
And I—well, I will own to you
He is my king.
Wo mot in no romantic way
' 'Twlxt "glow and gloom;"
He wooed me on a winter day,
Anil in—a room;
Yet, through life's hoursof stress and storm,
When griefs befell.
Love kept our small home corner warm.
And all was well.
Ned thinks no woman like his wife—
But let that pass;
Pt<rhaps we view the dual life
Through roseate glass;
Even if the prospects be not bright,
We hold it true
The heaviest burdens may grow light
When shared by two.
Upon the gilded scroll of fame,
Emblazoned fair,
" "nnnt hopo to read the name
1 IMW- -
I proudly bear;
But, liappy in their even flow,
The years glide by;
We are behind the times we know-
Ned and I.
—E. Matherson, in Chambers's Journal.
THE POOR"DUCRESS.
T was really very hard on
< the poor Duchess, es
vJ O o*" pecia'/ly after all tho toil
and labor she had un
oo«IA/grudgingly expended on
; I y her unattractive pro
-i J 112 geny. Her lot had ol
v* \ " ways been hard enough
ever since she had been a Duohess;
even before her wedding cake had
grown stale she had been coping with
difficulties, brutal difficulties which it
required ail her strength of mind to
face; and now, when a good share of
those difficulties were laid to rest with
Her husband, the late Duke, in tho
family vault at Longlands; now, when
she had just managed to retrieve the
shattered ducal fortunos by bringing
off the engagement of her ugly, dis
sipated son, the present Duke, to
Claudia Putnam, the richest American
heiress of the season, now for this
blow to fall upon her, it was really
too bad. The only balm to her anguish
was that it bad fallen at Longlands, in
the wilds of Yorkshire, and that the
whole thing might bo hushed up and
hustled into oblivion without any one
being any the wiser. She had gone to
Longlaud to recruit after her super
human expenditure of energy during
tho London season; her only guest
was Claudia Putnam, her son's fiancee,
with whom bhe was busy planning
alterations and renovations for the
new regime.
But the moment was robbed of all
its savor by this horrible catastrophe ;
this—what else could she call it?—
this drivelling idiocy of the least plain
and most hopeful of her six ungainly
daughters. She would have kept the
hateful story entirely to herself if sho
could, but her heart was too full for
silence, besides Claudia had her fair
share of Yankee shrewdness—sho
might suggest a brilliant solution of
the problem—so, as they sat over a
cup of tea in her boudoir, the Duchess
opened her new trouble to her future
daughter-in-law.
"I'm afraid, Claudia, dear," she bo
gan, "that we are going to havo ser
ious trouble with Henrietta." Claudia
wns very fond of the Duchess, so she
tried to look sympathetic, though with
Lady Henrietta, who was wrapped up
in parish work, who wore impossible
clothes and did her hair grotesquely,
she had no sympathy whatever.
"Dear me!" she replied, "I'm sorry
to hear it; I hope she's not sick."
"Sick!" repeated the Duchess, "I
wish she were, or anything half so
sensible. The fact is, she has been
and got herself entangled in a most
unbecoming love affair."
Miss Putnam opened her blue eyes
very wide, and set down her teacup
with a jerk. "My!" she exclaimed,
"and who on earth has been making
love to Henrietta?"
The Duchess lowered her voioe.
"My dear," she said, impressively, "it
is Mr. Gibson, the curate. She vows
sho will marry him; isn't it awful?"
"Rather awful for the curate,"
thought Claudia to herself; aloud sho
said : "Have I ever met Mr. Gibson?"
"Certainly not, dear. We do not
invite him here. Ho's not a gentle
man."
"Then where did Henrietta meet
him?"
"Ob, in cottages, and at the school.
You see, she likes parish work, and I
encouraged her—it sets such a good
example —and we've always had a mar
ried curate before; however, when
Mr. Gibson came I never thought of
chaperoning her, because, you see, ho
isn't a gentleman."
"But I suppose Henrietta thinks he
will make her a suitable husband?"
"My dear," cried the Duchess, "she
can't possibly think so. Why, his
father keeps a saddler's shop! He
hasn't been to the University. Oh, it's
altogether dreadful, and she's as ob
stinate as a mule about it."
She broke off as the door opened to
admit a young man in a shooting suit.
He was a plain, insignificant looking
personage, with an air of extreme self
appro va.'.
"I've just been telling Claudia about
this stupid affair of Henrietta's," went
on the Duchess.
"And what does Claudia think about
it?" asked the plain young man, who
was Claudia's accepted lover, and who
deposited his long limbs on the sofa
beside her and tried to bestow a fes
tive caress on the hand nearest to
him.
"I guess I'm pretty well taken by
surprise," said Miss Putnam, drawing
her hand out of her lover's reaeh.
"3o'm I," said the Duke, plaoi-dly
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896.
"I'm dashed if I can imagine what he
sees in Henrietta. She ain't pretty;
t'other way abont, rather; she's got
no money, and she's years older than
he is. I'm dashed if I'd marry a wo
man like Henrietta, even if I was a
saddler's son. I'm dashed if I conld
even feci spoony on her."
Mies Putnam looked at him. She
was going to marry a man very like
Henrietta, and she did not feel very
spoony .on him. She had accepted
him for sundry reasons, love being by
110 means the first or foremost.
"He must be an awfully vnsceptible
chap," went on His Qraoe, "to lose
bis heart to a girl like Henrietta.
And he's so obstinata, too, about it;
seems as if he really cared about her.
I thought, perhaps, it was mostly am
bition—her title and that sort of
thing, yon know—and I've offered him
all my influence in the way of a leg-up
to preferment, but he won't hear of
it. Funny thing, ain't it! Now, if it
had been a girl like you, Claudia—"
"Duchess," cried Miss Putnam, sud
denly interrupting her lover, "J have
an inspiration. You just send Hen-
t- . ~I girt,
uway. She can goto Jencuo,
or anywhere else, for a month or so,
and when she comes back the engage
ment will be broken off. I'll manage
h"
I She wouldn't answer any questions.
She said she thought she understood
the exact lay of the land. They might
leave it all to her. So to her it was
left, and the next day Lady Henrietta
was packed off to a married cousin in
South Wales. «
The following day, at Lady Hen
rietta customary hour, Miss Putnam
walked into the village schoolroom.
She wore a dainty blue cambric frook,
which fittod her a 9 no frock in Hen
rietta's lifetime had ever fitted her.
The little boys and girls opened their
eyes wide to look at her, so did the
school mistress, and so did Mr. Gib
son, the curate, who was hearing the
whole echool in its church catechism.
"Good morning," said Miss Put
nam, sweetly. "I am staying at the
Towers. I have come in Lady Henri
! etta's place this morning. She has
gone away for a few weeks, and she
would like you all to know it."
Sho looked around the room as sho
said it, and finally fixed her eyes on
the curate's frank, simple face.
"I hope," he began hesitatingly,
"that Lady Henrietta is not ill. This
absence is so un—unforeseen."
"Gness not," said Miss Putnam.
"She isn't ill, she never was better in
her life, but the Duchess thinks a
j chauge will do her a world of good."
"Her Grace is very cruel," mur
ium ed the curate.
"J beg your pardon?" said Claudia,
blandly.
"I was about to say," resumed the
curate, turning to the expectant chil
' dren, "that as her Ladyship in unable
| to come this morning, you will be de
| prived of tho interesting object-lesson
1 sho generally gives you. I'm sure you
i will all bo very sorry."
"Oh, they shan't miss their object
lesson," said Claudia, Btill more
blandly. "I've promised Lady Hen
rietta to givo it to them for her. '
The curate had been in tbe habit of
staying for Lady Henrietta's object
lesson—to keep order for her, he
would hare said had the Duchess
questioned him. So he stayed to keep
order for Claudia, which was quite
superfluous, for if her manner of ad
ministering instruction was not of a
nature to keep the attention of rest
less children, there were her fascinat
ing gown and her pretty trinkets, not
to speak of the charm of her face, to
hold her audience spellbound. And
when tho lesson was over he had got
into the way of walking with her Lady
ship along the school lane and through
the park. He escorted Miss Putnam
today, because he wanted to ask how
lung his liege Lady's banishment was
to last.
"I don't know,"was Miss Putnam's
reply. "I suppose she won't come
back till the Duchess chooses."
"Tho children will miss her sadly,"
moaned the curate.
"Guess sho must make it up to
them,"aaidClaudia, graciously; "I've
promised Henrietta to stand as much
in the gap as possible."
He gave her a grateful look.
"Wnen shall I come and give an
other object-lesson?" she went on —
"to-morrow?"
"Oh, no," said the curate; "to
morrow's geography day. Her lady
ship always gives a geography lesßon
on Thursday."
So Claudia put on another bewitoh
ing frock, varied her trinkets and did
her best with a goography lesson on
Thursday. On Friday she wrestled
with sums, and by degrees she learned
the whole school routine. She also
visited, under Mr. Gibson's escort,
one or two of Henrietta's old women,
who, he thought, would feel them
selves neglected in her absence.
Her fiance laughed at her.
"I see what you are up to,"he said ;
"of course, it's a clever move, but it's
rather rough on a susceptible ass like
Gibson."
"Why do you call him an ass?"
asked Miss Putnam, sharply, "because
his father is a saddler?"
"It's a splendid opportunity for you
to make yourself popular in the par
ish, dear," said the Duchess. "Of
co..rs?, when you are mistress here,
you will like to be popular among the
people."
"1 suppose I shall," said Claadia,
musingly.
But in spite of her inoipient popu
larity she would not have the marriage
I hurried on; she was equally deaf to
| the Duke's impatience and the Duch
ess's hints.
| "There are such heaps of l-I-i., >to
' do and to think of before anything
can be fixed," she said vaguely when
her fiance urged the matter upon her.
"Well, get on with the heaps of
things, then," he retorted, "and don't
piffle away so muah time at that con
founded tchool."
And Lady Henrietta was still in
banishment in South Wales.
Finally, Miss Pntnam's stay at
Locglands came to a rather unsatis
tory end, for she went away to London
leaving the wedding day unfixed and
the hangings for the new drawing
room unchoosen.
The day after her departure there
were two letters for the Duchess, one
from the curate, the other from Miss
Putnam. She opened the former first,
because she felt more curious as to its
contents.
"Madam," it ran, "although Your Grace
did not seriously ontertaln my proposal for
the hand of Lady Henrietta, I feel myself In
honor bound to let you know that my eyes
have been opeued to the folly and unsulta
bllity of tha marriage for which I would fain
have had yrnir sanction. I have written to
Lady Henrietta explaining, ns far as I can,
the folly nf our pnst, and begging her to for
give mo if she be in any way a sufferer by
our mistake. I am lenving Longlands at
once, therefore the embarrassment of any
further meeting will be avoided. Yours
faithfully, W. GIBSON."
The Duohess heaved a sigh of in
tense relief. This was Claudia's do
ing. Claudia was a right down clever
She bad certainly spent a great
deal of vaiuaoio j®..' n
Henrietta's footsteps, but sflc, I s "
enohantcd Mr. Gibson, and lifted a
horrible incubus off the family shoul
ders. She was really far too good for
that stupid, muddle-headed son of
hers; still she, the Duchess, supposed
that a title was an infinite attraction
to a born democrat, so things were,
after all, not so very uneven. Then
she took tip Claudia's letter. "Dear
child," she murmured, as she broke
the seal.
"Jly denr Duchess," she read, and with
each succeeding 11n'3 her dismayed astonish
ment increased; "I'm glad I came to stay at
Longlands before I took the irrevocable step
to the altar. I don't want to say anything
nasty or mean, but, really, I never did care
about the Duke; I only accepted him be
cause I thought you'd make up your Piiudto
have mo for a daughter-in-law; I should have
made him perfectly miserable if I rind mar
ried him. Mr. Gibson finds, too, that ho
made a groat mistake in thinking he cared
for H-urietia. He explained it all to me,
and lam quite satisfied. He and I are going
to bo married befor • Advent. I shan't mind
having a saddler for a father-in-law. Yours
always, CLAUDIA PUTSAM."
The Duchess threw the letter across
the table to her son. "Read that,
Southdown," she said; "we've got
Heurietta out of bcr scrape most
splendidly."
It really was too hard on the poor
Duchess. —St. Paul's.
A Victim ol Reform.
For twenty years an old clerk in tho
appraisers' tuilding bad worked in
the same little room. In all that time
the single window which was intended
to light the room hart nover been
cleaned or opened, and was covered
with cobwebs and dust. For twenty
years the old clerk had worked by
artificial light and the walls that were
once white had turned blaok and grimy.
During all the twenty years the floor
was never swopt and the door was
never opened except to let the old
clerk in or out. For twenty years the
old clerk worked away at bis desk,
smoking an old pipe almost continu
ously, but he would never let a speck
of the old dust or so much as a breath
of the moldy and fetid air escape from
the room. For twenty years the old
man worked in that room and was
never sick a day. A short time ago
Collector Wise ordered the window
cleaned, the place swept out, the walls
whitened, the old furniture removed
and new substituted, and gave the old
place a general overhauling. A ven
tilator was putin the window and the
transom was propped open, so tho
room was well aired and lighted.
The old clerk sneezed all day when
he went back and sat in tho fresh air,
and the light hurt his eyes so that be
had to go over and buy a stronger pair
of glasses. On the third day lie took
his bed, and it was a week before he
was out. Since then be has not been
well a day, and he is bugging the Col
lector to Btop up the ventilator, close
tho transom and put a shade over the
window.—San Francisco Post.
Lodgm? in a Rope House.
The latest addition to tho curiosities
of St. Louis is what Secretary Saun
ders of the election commission calls
a rope bouse. It is a combination sa
loon and hotel at Levee and Spruce
streets, kept by a man named Peter
son.
Across the room tho proprietor has
a rope stretched tighly, and in front
of it and parallel with it is n row of
ordinary wooden bottom chairs. Every
lodger, upon payment of five cents, is
given a chair and is allowed to sleep
with his head resting upon tho rope.
They are allowed to sleep until 6
o'clock in morning. Promptly nt that
time the bartender is required to see
that every lodger is awakened and
made to move on.
This is accomplished by striking one
end of the rope with a bung starter.
The blows have pretty much the same
effect as striking the sleoping boarders
on the head with a billy, and they
generally move on.
If this fails, one end of the rope is
unfastened and the remaining sleepers
are allowed to fall sprawling on the
floor.—Chicago Tribune.
A ltare Copper Coiu.
Fred D. McDonald, a druggist, of
Kennett Square, has just sold an old
copper coin for 8200. The coin is
very rare. It is of the date of 1783,
and on one side has the bust of Wash
ington and t'ae words "Washington
and Liberty," and on the other "one
cent." He took the coin in trade at
his store for its faoe value, one cent.
—Philadelphia Beoord.
Scarcity of Cuban Cedar.
There is said to be a scarcity of
Cuban cedar for cigar boxes since the
outbreak of the revolution in that
country. A good substitute, and one
o'.teu used, however, m oumbsr wood,
! which is dyed in the noruilar oolor.
WirlY JOHN BULL IS REJOICING.
' IM ™ CIH FREt ™
1894—£?,'c88,'119 13s! 7d! J «ifgP
-^ aln *° over Mc-1
fA-a^T
•Tobn Bull—"Well done, Bradford. One year's Yankee Freo Trade'as done over §17,500,000 better for you
than their jlarsted Protection. If Grover hain't gono back on us haltogether, and don't sign their New Tariff
Bill, you'll 'ave this snap for two years more."
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
SECRETARY MORTON'S ANNUAL
RKPORT CAREFULLY
REVIEWED.
Capture of the Markets of the World
Signally Failed -Foreigners Only
Uuy Our Farm I'r oducts at Cheap
Prices—Conditio aj, Not Theories,
Coufront Farmers.
It was with relief that wo received
the annual report of tho Secretary of
Agriculture for 1895. Having hunted
in vain, month after month, through
otir statistics of exports for some indi
cation of tho capture of tho markets
of the world by American farmers, wo
felt sure that comfort could be gleaned
from Secretary Morton's report. Wo
gather tho following facts:
During the 1895 fiscal year there
was a decreaso in our exports of cattle
of 39,236 head as compared with 1894.
On the other hnnd we imported 63,716
head of cattle from Mexico. But tho
wonderful stimulus given to our wool
growing industry is shown in our ex
ports of 350,808 head of sheep, an in
crease of 300 per cent, over 1894,
when only 85,809 were shipped
abroad.
Concerning the foreign markets for
American meat products, Mr. Morton
says that "prices for bacon averaged
considerably lower during the year
1895 than in the year 1894." Though
there was "a very considerable ad
vance in the price of bacon" in the
British market in the summer, "United
States bacon did not participate to any
appreciable extent in the general ad
vance." During seven months of the
year wo sold 15,680,000 pounds more
bacon, but received 51,000,000 "less
money for it. It is with bacon as with
other of our farm products, the
markets of the world uro willing to
take them when thoy need them, not
when wo want to selltheca; and at
their price, not our price. Of our
live stook trade in the British market
Mr. Morton says:
"Up to the present ye»r the United
States and Canada have had an un
questioned monopoly in tho supply
of imported livo cattle to the British
people; but now there is vigorous ana
growing competition from Argentina,
and also inoipient competition from
Australia."
Evidently this market of the world
cannot be maintained for us, as other
countries are trying to effect its cap
ture. Again it is said that "shipments
of chilled beef from the United States
fell off during the first eight months
of the present year 11,000,000 pounds."
Of our oheese we learn that: "Through
out the year United States ch ese has
commanded the minimum figure upon
the English market. We also shipped to
England, iu eight months, nearly
117,000 owts. less than in the 1894
period. We supply that market of
the world with only one per cent, of
its total imports of butter. There is
a great market for eggs in England,
that oountry paying $12,280,91' T for
foreign eggs in a year. But t'ue aoney
goes to Russia, Denmark, Germany,
Belgium, France and Canada. The
United States gets none of it.
Farmers can, during the winter
months, reflect upon the importance
ot these oaptures of the markets of
the world, to whioh our free trade
Seoretary of Agriculture has drawn
their attention.
Eiurlish Farm Failures,
English farmers onoe tried an e*«
port bounty. Next they tried free
trade, and, finally, they have eorao to
the polioy of protection to save them
selves from utter ruin and annihila
tion. This is a lesson to American
farmers.
Terms—sl.oo in Advance; S- 1 after Three Months.
Willi Rraillord's Best Wishes,
May your Christinas be unmention-
SHODDY MADE £* b K>V.° d .
TROUSERS. ono of uncheckered
P r °serity.
cf -—a* No Breeches of Delight
I? Itinidifl and Love,
kTlrilsH Thro' Life may you
I|rlCut. where you go,
SjwLJF| JU may Fortune
XlrfWT strow
Unmentionable glee.
tsH* May • Joy and Peace,
V-iJi- that uevercease,
'jjpjl On you he always
And Cam and Doubt be
*lfes== W llot '' Phiycd Out
-H IP Vfrf Like Cast Off Panta-
Jpp JJy loon*.
Tn What a shame and
2UL fnnr insult t0 American
inf. labor, when the ex
u»pi | cudiiuu ports of shoddy made
Wt-LL SHRUNK g oo( j s f rom England
PRICE $ 1.00 aloue during the last
eleveu mouths of this year reached
following gigantic figures:
1801. 1895.
Wool ... i' 140,552 £152,8,' C
Woolen and worslel
yarns.... 9.778 142,787
Woolen tissues 267.179 1,386,607
Worsted tissues 1,0:11,481 4,433,055
4.1,418,1)90 £6, 415,325
Increase . £4,906.335
YANKEE.
Bradford, Eng., December 21, 1895.
A "Robher Baron" Bill.
Tho publication of tho October im
port and export statement was a littlo
late, no doubt owing to tho pressure
of work at the Government printing
office when it is issuing the depart
mental annual roports. However, it
is just as interesting as ever. It ena
bles us to compare the effect of tho
new tariff in helping our agricultural
and manufactured products to capture
the markets of the world. Taking the
first ten months of each of tho years
given, wo have tho following:
TEN MONTHS' EXronTS TO OCTOUEII 3D.
Products. 1891. 1892 1895.
A'j'1'a1.5538,527,843 $566,438,540 $416,463,438
M'n'f'd. 111.068,716 125,150,207 161,572,431
Under tho McKinlev tariff our agri
cultural expoits grew larger, being
worth $28,000,000 moro in the 1892
than in the 1891 months. Our manu
factured exports declined by $16,-
000,000. The McKiuley tariff' did not
help manufacturers to eapturo tho
m irkets of the world; it gave them
the homo market. What the Gorman
tariff has douo for tho farmers is to
shut thorn out of tho markets of tlie
world to tho extent of $150,000,000,
in ten msnths, as compared with 1892.
And it has not increased the homo
market for firm products. But it has
helped manufacturers to soli $40,-
000,000 worth moro of their goods
abroad, by cheapening labor which
forms tho bulk of the cost of produc
tion. Tho Gorman tarift is a regular
"Robber Barou" bill.
Japan Injures Manchester.
Tho cotton industry continues to
boom abroad and starve at home. Tho
latest Shanghai mail advices say that
three cotton mills are being proceed
ed with with all dispatch, egged on
by the rumor-that one of the leading
Japanese companies had decided to
erect a mill at Shanghai to run 20,000
spindles. By next May it is expeotod
that all four mills will be running.
On our side the announcements are of
mills stopping.—The Textile Meicury,
England.
Exports of Domestic Products.
Harrison, 1889-93, annual aver
age $891,091,727
Cleveland, 1894-95, annual aver
age 831.305.58S
Annual excess for Harrison .. $59,776,199
NO. 18.
I'hinese Wool Competition,
IMPORTS OF CHINESE WOOL.
Ten months
ending Price per
Oct. 31. Pounds. Value. pounJ.
189 111,201.168 SU42,y:jG 7 1-10 cents
189 18,188,774 1,158,381 C 2-5 cents
The foregoing figures represent the
extent ot a new competitor to Ameri
can wool. Last year in ten months we
imported 13,201,108 pounds of wool
from China. Thin year the quantity
had increased to 18,188,774 pounds.
The shrinkage of this wool ie light,
less than forty per cent, in scouring,
hence last year's imports took the place
of 22,000,000 pounds of American
wool. The price of this wool, 7 1-10
cents per pound in 1894, has fallen to
0 2-5 cents this year. This indicates
that American sheep raisers must here
after bo prepared to meet Chinese
wool competition on the basis of six
to 6cven cents per There
is no theory about this. It is a plain,
straight condition that exists, a condi
tion that confronts American wool
growers.
Tai'ift for Revenue Itcsiills.
If tho Gorman tariff were intended
as a revenue measure, it was framed
by men who were ignorant of the duty
that they undertook. In almost every
instance whero the rate of duty has
been lowered, tho effect has been to
diminish the amount of revenue while,
in most instances, increasing the quan
tity of tho goods imported. It must
bo patent to everybody, even to tho
free traders themselves and to thoso
"placid old fogies" who constitute tho
Tarilt Reform Club, that a tariff can
not be "reformed" in the direction of
free trado without creating a defi
ciency in tho revenue of the Govern
ment, unless money bo provided by
some mode of direct taxation upon tho
people. This must be done in a man
ner that is not unconstitutional.
The customs revenue for tho 1895
fiscal year was 825,000,000 less than
for 1892 and $50,000,000 less than
in 1893. This renders it imperative
upon tho House of Representatives to
pass a bill that will cover the de
ficiency.
A Word From tlie West.
Tho safety of our Americau institu
tions against foroigu invasion lies not
only in a patriotic citizenship which
at a moment's notico would create a
voliiuteor army of dofense, but it also
consists iu the great natural resources
wo enjoy. Destroy the wool industry
and what would be tho result iu case
of a foreign war, with our ports
blockaded and dependent upon for
eign wool to clothe our army and out
people? This is, iu my opinion, one
of the strongest reasons for protect
ing and fostering the productions of
wool.—J. W. Babcock, M. C. from
Wisconsin.
Free Trade Flocks.
In June, 1895, English farmers car
ried 4,500,000 head of cattle. Throe
years before tho samo farmers owned
5,000,000 head. Thus a decline of tea
percent, is shown in thirty-six months.
In 1895 there were übout 30,000,000
sheep in Great Britain. Tho falling
off in English flocks during the last
few years has been very marked. —An
nual Report of tho Secretary of Agri
sal ture.
Woman May Practice U*.
The Bar Association of Pittsburg. Fenn.,
decided to permit women to practice law. A
resolution to exclude women from practising
law was overwhelming defeated after a
spirited dlsousslon of nearly two hours, at
one of the largest meetings ever held bythe
association.
Chines* Expelled From Nteuwn
Shiploads of Oblnamen who have been ex
pelled from Nicaragua are fleeing to the
lithmus of Panama.